[Giving Brig a Look now. It's mildly disapproving.]

She kept Yamatai stable while the rest of Japan was too busy fighting itself. She did what she had to. That requires some compromise while you're still trying to figure out how to make things change for the better.

[And he doesn't fault her for it, not in the slightest.]

I wouldn't be the leader that I am today without her, Brigade. She was my first teacher.